This module is intended to help participants situate their teaching within the discipline they teach and within national and institutional higher education policies. The overall aim is to help participants clarify their own values related to their teaching through critical examination of the values embedded in those contexts and the UK Professional Standards Framework for University Teaching (UKPSF). To that end, we will start with dilemmas participants encounter in their teaching practice and analyse them in relation to the responsibilities of and accountabilities on academics in the current context. With support, participants will also individually investigate issues particular to teaching in their own subject area.
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This module is only available to members of staff who have to complete the PGCHE as part of their probation, or Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) who are contracted by the University to teach. It is not available to postdoctoral research workers or part-time teachers.
Report, 1,000 word (50%)
Report, 2,000 word (50%)
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module, participants will be able to:
• Adapt your teaching to the particular challenges students have with learning your subject (e.g. discipline/field). (PGCHE 1, 2, 4)
• Articulate and justify your own purposes/values/aims in teaching. (PGCHE 4, 6)
• Critically analyse the impact of key policy and technology developments in UK higher education on students, academics and universities. (PGCHE 3, 5)
• Critically engage with ethical issues and values in teaching and evaluate various resolutions to dilemmas you face. (PGCHE 1, 4, 5)
• Exercise initiative and personal responsibility in identifying ways to better support student learning. (PGCHE 1, 2, 6)
• Make decisions in complex and unpredictable teaching and learning situations that take into account the demands of your context and your own goals and values. (PGCHE 1, 4)
• Independently continue their professional development and learning related to teaching in your own discipline. (PGCHE 6)
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